Who's in? It'll be my first year, and I'll be writing in August!



My novel is titled Pole Splitting. If you are interested, you can view related posts in the Nanowrimo category on my blog as they are written. :)

I'm going to start writing serial/flash fiction in the world of Amelia Baskerville (my 2009 & 2010 Nanowrimo novels). Most of them will center around developing other characters so that I can reserve Amelia for the novel I will SOME DAY WRITE and FINISH, but if you'd like to read up on them, you can--

The Adventures of Amelia Baskerville

On that note, I also have a fairly large project planned that's related to these inserts. Baskerville, the zine! It'll include the above shorts plus character bios, a comic featuring Amelia as a child and her friend Panda in the ancient forests of China, and some other fun things. Coming soon!

I have been having story ideas that I have not been writing down. Bad, me!

I am thinking of doing Camp Nanowrimo this year since (as it turns out) November tends to be a very busy month. (December is busier, but November is awful.)

Plus I'm single and lonely and nobody wants to be with me (crycrycry) so I will want to do something with my free time.

Anyway, I kind of have an idea, and I'm not sure if I should start writing it or if I should wait for Camp.

13k.
What a pathetic number for me.

I've gone the month through at less, though. I'm about 6,500 words away from 20k, though, so I think 20k is my goal for this weekend (it's Sunday night and I have to clean or I will hate myself the whole week through but then I will try some more).

Everything I'm writing is really, really bad, but it's bad in the way where even as I'm writing it I know how I can cut it down into something readable/better. I've got some good material, good thoughts, good ideas, but it's coming out like a super long unfocused blog post that I just need to break apart into three smaller posts on three different topics.

I like that I have a map now, though. Monday night I went to the casino with Justin and made this pretty thing in my notebook:



It tells me exactly what to write about when and where. Well, sort of. I'm struggling with the story still, but at least I have several points to start from. Each point is landing around 3k, and I won't complain. I can slim each 3k scene down to 1500 when I'm done and it'll be a short story but perfectly readable in the format I'd like to publish it.

I just have to keep writing, right?

Agh, my website is down and my maintenance guy isn't responding to me :( Here's my contribution to Six Sentence Sunday for this week!

Some days, like that morning, he made full three-second stops at stop signs. Somehow it made the day more relaxed; he thought less urgently and took his time. With coffee in its position, his computer booted up, and pictures of Nora, Josh, and Maggie smiling playfully at him from a clipboard, Max blinked away the sleep from his eyes and took a deep breath at the start of his work day.

Max could go an entire day on variations of one thought or allow several thousand to pierce the darkness like flickering stars. It wasn't always a clear night; clouds often distorted the view just as Max often lost his train of thought. On that cold but clear Tuesday morning, Max's mind was abnormally blank, but he thought nothing of it.

(Website: The Reshaping of Everyday Life)

This, friends, is how I will become a great writer.

Max tries to find adventure in life by taking trips with his friends to go sky-diving, hiking, canoeing, and camping.
Max has had the same recurring dream his entire life, but he forgets it as soon as he wakes up.
Max has a pretty tolerable job that makes his chosen luxuries affordable.
Max reads The Washington Post every morning while he eats breakfast.
Max has a girlfriend but his heart's not in it.
Max's favorite color is green.
His parents live 30 minutes away.
He wants to learn to play guitar.
His sister has two kids.

Max's life is pretty normal, just like yours or mine... but one day he picks up a different newspaper, and suddenly everything is different...

Pretty good description to spring off of.... Though I still don't know where this is going to go!

LOVE the new site! Getting pumped. :)

(Fuck Yeah Writer Leopard)

Every year I actively do Nano, I make a lot of new friends. And you all are BRILLIANT. If you're still writing, make the next two days count! If you're not, well, there's always next year. :)

<3

I just wrote a twist! I've never written a twist before. This really wasn't part of the plan. All that bit before about Mix explaining his inventions, etc, turned into this TWIST and I don't know where it came from but it makes PERFECT SENSE and I'm so happy I sat down to write this story this year because if I had continued writing it last year, I bet you anything this twist wouldn't be here.

Is anyone else starting to really get so into their story that they're making the same facial expressions they make when books they READ have similar plot elements (like, for example, that "OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT JUST HAPPENED" twist face)? This is really kind of spectacular for me.

You may now return to your food comas.

(PS: I passed 45k 47k! today.)